Literature and LatteA place for readers, writers, coffee drinkers and tautologies; also the home of Scrivener and Scapple, for Mac OS X and Windows.2018-03-06T17:49:01http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/feed.php?mode=news2018-03-06T17:49:012018-03-06T17:49:01http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51193&p=261660#p261660Scrivener 3.0.2 is now available on our site and on the Mac App Store. Scrivener 3.0.2 is a free and recommended update for all registered users of Scrivener 3. It provides numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements. A full list of changes can be found here:

To download Scrivener 3.0.2, follow the instructions below - please note that the instructions differ depending on whether you bought Scrivener directly from us or from the Mac App Store. If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to e-mail us at mac.support@literatureandlatte.com for further assistance.

#### 1. HOW TO UPDATE IF YOU BOUGHT DIRECTLY FROM US ####

Either:

Select "Check for Updates" from the "Scrivener" menu within Scrivener itself and follow the on-screen instructions;

If you have already seen the update notification and followed the on-screen instructions to update, you don't need to do anything else.

#### 2. HOW TO UPDATE IF YOU BOUGHT FROM THE MAC APP STORE ####

Open up the Mac App Store.

Click on the "Updates" button in the toolbar.

You should see Scrivener listed with an "UPDATE" button next to it - click on the "UPDATE" button.

Note: at the time of writing, Scrivener 3.0.2 has passed through review and is officially "Ready for Sale", but it make take a few hours to appear in all App Stores. If you still only see Scrivener 3.0.1 and no "UPDATE" button, please wait a few hours and try again.

]]>2017-12-20T16:01:582017-12-20T16:01:58http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49875&p=255548#p255548As usual, Literature & Latte will be closing over the Christmas holidays. We're a small team but we believe it's important that our staff, who work so hard (doubly so over the past few weeks, with Scrivener 3's release), take a break over Christmas to spend with family and loved ones. (And of course, providing efficient technical support is difficult when you have a glass of Cockburn's in one hand, a Chocolate Orange in the other, and you're on tenterhooks over whether Arnie is going to manage to get Turbo-Man for Anakin Skywalker in time for Christmas.)

Thus, Literature & Latte's customer support will be closed from Thursday, 21st December through to Wednesday, 3rd January. We will be re-opening our virtual doors on Thursday, 4th January.

This means that if you send us emails during this period, you will most likely receive an auto-reply telling you that we are on holiday and will reply as soon as we are sober. Likewise, we won't be around on the forums as much as usual and so some questions may go unanswered until January.

If you have any issues that are genuinely urgent or time-critical over the Christmas holidays, here's what to do:

If you are still stuck, email us and place "[URGENT]" in the subject of your email.

Emails with "[URGENT]" in the subject line will be prioritised and we will do our best to reply to them before the New Year. However, we can only reply to genuinely urgent support requests (such as data loss or an inability to open the program at all) - non-urgent requests will be replied to in the New Year even if they have "[URGENT]" in the subject line.

The web store will of course remain open, and we will answer all non-urgent emails sent to us over the Christmas period as soon as we possibly can in the New Year (which may take a few days if there is a backlog).

My sincere thanks to everyone for their support this year, and for the amazing reception of Scrivener 3. From all of us at L&L to all of our users, we hope you have a fantastic Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

]]>2017-11-16T20:17:412017-11-16T20:17:41http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40564&p=241784#p241784Exciting news! Scrivener 3 for macOS will be released on Monday, 20th November. For more details, please see the blog post:

I've been working on this for aeons, and can't wait to get it into your hands. Please bear with us on Monday as we update the site and get everything in place. Everything will be done in UK time, so if you're on the other side of the world it may be 21st November by the time everything is available.

The discussion revolves around a new feature “Bookmarks”, which has been lightly introduced already in the iOS version. What you see there is the tip of the iceberg. Bookmarks replaces References, Project Notes and Favorites into one cohesive system that doesn’t sacrifice any capabilities from the older design.

We hope to be posting little insights and unveiling features every week for a bit here. Subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed if you’re interested in keeping up!

]]>2016-12-19T16:20:072016-12-19T16:20:07http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37214&p=228055#p228055As usual, Literature & Latte will be closing over the Christmas holidays. We're a small team and many of us will be away visiting family, and I'm not Scrooge enough to force anyone to work the Christmas break. Besides, technical support is a little tricky when you're balancing a Graham's port and chocolate liqueur in one hand while trying to hide the remote control with the other so that the kids can't turn over to Jessie or Violetta before you get to see Arnold Schwarzenegger punch a reindeer.

Thus, Literature & Latte's customer support will be closed from Thursday, 22nd December through to Wednesday, 4th January.

We will be re-opening our virtual doors on Thursday, 5th January.

This means that if you send us emails during this period, you will most likely receive an auto-reply telling you that we are on holiday and will reply as soon as we are sober. Likewise, we won't be around on the forums as much as usual and so some questions may go unanswered until January.

If you have any issues that are genuinely urgent or time-critical over the Christmas holidays, here's what to do:

* If you are still stuck, email us and place "[URGENT]" in the subject of your email.

Emails with "[URGENT]" in the subject line will be prioritised and we will do our best to reply to them before the New Year. However, we can only reply to genuinely urgent support requests (such as data loss, an inability to open the program and suchlike) - non-urgent requests will be replied to in the New Year even if they have "[URGENT]" in the subject line.

The web store will of course remain open, and we will answer all non-urgent emails sent to us over the Christmas period as soon as we possibly can in the New Year (which may take a few days if there is a backlog).

]]>2016-12-16T16:45:042016-12-16T16:45:04http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37187&p=227894#p227894Scrivener 1.0.1 for iOS is now available via the App Store. This release fixes several bugs, improves iOS 10 compatibility and includes several improvements. Changes are as follows:

DOCUMENT TEMPLATES• Document templates are now supported, allowing for the creation of character and location sheets, for example (see new section in tutorial).

IMPORT• Web pages can now be imported from the "import" button.

TEXT EDITING• Superscript and subscript support added.• A line break button is now available for the extended keyboard row.• Cmd-L in the editor will now create a line break.

SEARCH• Project search now includes label and status names.• "Replace" now jumps to the next match after a replacement.

COMPILE• Rich text lists are now converted to Markdown when "Convert to Basic Markdown" is ticked in Compile.• Applying "Preserve Formatting" (available from extended keyboard row options) to text now excludes that text from having special characters escaped when using "Convert to Basic Markdown".• Compiling to PDF and printing now uses the full resolution of embedded images.

OTHER• Auto-Lock is now disabled while Dropbox is syncing, to prevent timeouts.• Added an option to Settings app to disable Auto-Lock.• You can now remove Quick References from the history by swiping on the Quick Reference list in the history popover.• You can now determine the sort order of the main projects list by entering "Edit" mode and pulling down to reveal sort options.• Improved iOS 10 support.• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

]]>2016-12-15T16:51:312016-12-15T16:51:31http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37169&p=227808#p227808Scrivener 2.8.1 is now available to users who bought from us direct (or from one of our resellers such as Amazon.com). It was also submitted to the Mac App Store yesterday, but at this time is still waiting to go into review. We hope it will be available there in the next few days. (And iOS update has also been submitted to the App Store.) Scrivener 2.8.1 is a free update for all registered users of Scrivener 2, and we recommend that you update from whatever version of Scrivener you are using. It provides a few fixes for bugs introduced by Apple to Sierra, and some minor fixes to the iOS sync code.

To download Scrivener 2.8.1, follow the instructions below - please note that the instructions differ depending on whether you bought Scrivener directly from us or from the Mac App Store. If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to e-mail us at mac.support@literatureandlatte.com for further assistance.

#### 1. UPDATING TO 2.8.1 FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT DIRECTLY FROM US ####

To download Scrivener 2.8.1, either:

• Select "Check for Updates" from the "Scrivener" menu within Scrivener itself and follow the on-screen instructions;

If you have already seen the update notification and followed the on-screen instructions to update, you don't need to do anything else.

#### 2. UPDATING TO 2.8.1 FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT FROM THE MAC APP STORE ####

Scrivener 2.8.1 has been submitted to the Mac App Store for review, so should appear on the Mac App Store within the next week or two, depending on the current review waiting times (which vary). So, please keep an eye out for the update in the "Updates" pane of the Mac App Store.

App Store users who do not wish to wait can just download and run Scrivener 2.8.1 from our site for the time being. As long as you have run Scrivener from the Mac App Store at least once, the version on our site should recognise you as a registered user. (You will need to remove Scrivener from your Applications directory before you can do this, and you may be prompted to enter your admin password to do so.) When the update becomes available on the Mac App Store, you can then just delete our regular version and re-download from the Mac App Store (or you can continue using our regular version, of course).

]]>2016-10-07T00:33:182016-10-07T00:33:18http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36385&p=224517#p224517Scrivener 1.9.7 for Windows is now available. This release has new features, refinements and bug fixes. It is a free update for all registered users of Scrivener for Windows, and we recommend that you update from 1.9.6.

Updates and Refinements

Improved the font parser to ignore faulty values within font fields, which previously could prevent Scrivener from opening while fonts with incorrect values were installed. (Any fonts removed in order to run Scrivener 1.9.6 can be reinstalled.)

Added support for Microsoft Office 2016 in the import and export converter options.

When selecting formatting levels in the Compile “Formatting” pane, affected documents are now highlighted in the binder.

Improved conflict resolution when syncing mobile changes to reduce unnecessary conflicted copies being created when a document is edited only on iOS.

Scrivener now detects and prompts to sync mobile changes even when a project is the active (frontmost) window. Be sure Dropbox has completed downloading before choosing to sync.

When syncing from mobile devices, black text colour (used on iOS for 'no colour') is converted to a true 'no colour' on Windows, allowing the text to display in the default text colour for the editor (set in Tools > Options > Appearance).

Added a prompt message to simplify showing changed documents after syncing from iOS.

The selection highlight in the binder has been extended to the full binder width, making it easier to distinguish from label colours and compile format highlighting.

'Split with Selection as Title' and 'Set Selected Text as Title' now convert carriage returns and line breaks within the selection to spaces in the title.

Selecting 'Open File Location' from the references context menu now selects the item within the containing folder in the file browser.

Added a more informative message when choosing File > Sync > with Mobile Devices... when there are no changes in the project.

Updated the collection tab appearance and added a right-click option to the colour icon to show the collection colour context menu.

Fixed a bug whereby external plain-text files did not import correctly using the Sync with External Folder option with extensions other than .txt.

Fixed a bug whereby advanced compile replacements using the $@ tag did not work.

Fixed a bug whereby compile replacements did not affect titles in the auto-generated table of contents for ebooks or in the page title of webpage formats.

Fixed a bug whereby pasting rich-text into the Project Replace 'replace' field pasted the RTF syntax.

Fixed a bug whereby conflicted copies of documents following a mobile sync displayed initially with a blank document icon and a 0 word and character count in the editor footer.

Fixed a bug whereby the text selection and cursor position were not always saved if no other changes were made in a document.

Fixed a bug whereby some unicode characters might be duplicated when pasting or importing 2-byte character text into Scrivener from Microsoft Word.

Removed code attempting to clean up styles from HTML on the clipboard when pasting into Scrivener, as doing so could lose parts of the original text.

Fixed a bug whereby it was possible to use 'Move to Selection' on an inspector comment or footnote when only carriage returns were selected, causing the note to disappear. The New Comment/Footnote commands are now also disabled when only carriage returns are selected (comments would not previously be created, but the commands appeared available).

Updated the version of 7-zip included in the Doc2Any conversion tools Scrivener uses.

Fixed a typo in the Spanish translation files.

Updating to 1.9.7

To download Scrivener 1.9.7, either:

Select "Check for Updates" from the "Help" menu within Scrivener itself and follow the on-screen instructions;

]]>2016-08-09T18:42:442016-08-09T18:42:44http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35670&p=220426#p220426Scrivener 1.9.6 for Windows is now available. This is mainly a bug-fix update to address some issues that arose with the 1.9.5 release; it also includes a few additional refinements. It is a free update for all registered users of Scrivener for Windows, and we recommend that you update from 1.9.5.

Important notes

We are currently investigating reports of Scrivener 1.9.5 failing to run on some systems; 1.9.6 does not resolve this issue. If you are experiencing this problem and are willing to provide system information to help us resolve the issue, please contact windows.support AT literatureandlatte DOT com.

Scrivener allows Windows to scale its display on high resolution monitors, which may cause it to appear blurry. You can disable the display scaling by right-clicking the Scrivener.exe or its desktop shortcut, choosing Properties > Compatibility, and selecting "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings".

Refined the list behaviour so that ending a list resets the following paragraph to the default editor formatting rather than retaining the list indentation.

Fixed a bug whereby older projects updated to the new file format might be converted such that they worked in Scrivener for Windows but remained incompatible with the iOS version.

Fixed a bug whereby label and status were not included in project search.

Fixed a bug whereby certain fonts (those without available PostScript names) were removed from documents, causing the text to switch to unusual fallback fonts. This fix ensures the fonts are no longer removed; text that has already been converted will need to be reset to its proper font.Note to Helvetica Users: If you experienced this bug when using "Helvetica", it means the font is not installed, and Windows was previously substituting Arial. "Helvetica" text will now be named correctly as "Arial". We recommend checking that Helvetica is not set as a default font in the Editor or Appearance sections of Tools > Options.

Fixed a bug whereby e-book font sizes did not compile correctly if the main body size was not 12pt.

]]>2016-06-01T08:19:362016-06-01T08:19:36http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34633&p=214470#p214470Coming UpWe will also be shuffling some boards around and merging others that have historically seen little use. This change will be rolled out some time this week.

RSS (Atom) FeedsIf you have been subscribing to areas of the forum using RSS or Atom-based feed readers, you may find that your feeds stop working with this update. In the past we used an unofficial patch to add these feeds to the forum, but in the latest version of phpBB, a simple feed system is provided, using the Atom protocol.

Your web browser should display available feeds, but specifically how it does so will vary depending on the browser.

Active Topics: lists all posts that have had recent discussion within them.

More Specific FeedsIf you wish to subscribe to only one forum in general, or even a single topic, then navigate to that location and you will find the relevant link added to the browser’s feed list for the page you are viewing.

]]>2016-05-13T19:36:192016-05-13T19:36:19http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34498&p=213894#p213894Scrivener for iOS has been in closed beta with around 75 people for the past month. We’re now looking to expand the beta group, so are throwing open the doors to volunteers. If you’re interested in helping test Scrivener for iOS, read on!

The word “beta” has been watered down a little in recent years, with Apple and Google making available early “betas” of their software to everyone. As a result, the word has almost become synonymous with “getting it early”, with little expectation on beta testers to do much in return. Ours is a true beta, however, so the most important thing to bear in mind is that you shouldn’t sign up if you’re just after early access to Scrivener for iOS. We’re looking for testers who will be active in helping us track down bugs and find problems, to help us ensure the final product is as stable and great to use as possible.

We only have a limited number of beta testing spots available, and right now we’re looking to add between 200 and 250 new people to the pool. The spots will probably be taken up quickly, and we expect to receive more applications than we can accept, so please don’t be disappointed if you miss out, or if you apply but don’t get asked to participate—we may well scale up the beta further a little later.

You don’t have to be a techie to apply—you just need to be ready to use Scrivener a lot on your iPhone or iPad (iOS 9.0 or above is required). Crucially, you need to be prepared to encounter bugs and to spend time trying to reproduce them so that you can write down the steps we need to take so that we can see them for ourselves and fix them. If you don’t have time to spend repeating the same sequence of actions over and over again in an attempt to trigger a bug you’ve spotted, then beta-testing isn’t for you—you should leave others to act as Guinea pigs and wait to reap the rewards of their frustrations when Scrivener for iOS is officially released instead!

Does this sound overly negative and “Here be dragons?” I hope not. The beta so far has been going great, with beta testers using Scrivener for iOS every day without any real problems. And now you can too—if you’re happy to get stuck in and haven’t been put off by any of the above, follow the link below to sign up. (Please make sure you use this form and do not email us directly; we’ll only be picking beta testers who have submitted the form. Thanks!)

]]>2015-12-19T01:23:532015-12-19T01:23:53http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33309&p=208570#p208570Just to let you know that, as usual, Literature & Latte will be closing over the Christmas holidays. We're a relatively small team and many of us will be away visiting family, and I'm not Scrooge enough to force anyone to work the Christmas break. Besides, technical support is a little tricky when you're balancing a Cockburn's port and mince pie in one hand while trying to hide the remote control with the other so that the kids can't turn over to the Disney channel before you get to see Arnold Schwarzenegger beat Sinbad to getting the last Turbo Man in New York.

Thus, Literature & Latte's customer support will be closed from Saturday, 19th December through to Sunday, 3rd January.

We will be re-opening our virtual doors on Monday, 4th January.

This means that if you send us emails during this period, you will most likely receive an auto-reply telling you that we are on holiday and will reply as soon as we get chance in the New Year. Likewise, we won't be around on the forums as much as usual and so some questions may go unanswered until January.

If you have any issues that are genuinely urgent or time-critical over the Christmas holidays, here's what to do:

If you are still stuck, email us and place "[URGENT]" in the subject of your email.

Emails with "[URGENT]" in the subject line will be prioritised and we will do our best to reply to them before the New Year. However, we can only reply to genuinely urgent support requests (such as data loss, an inability to open the program and suchlike) - non-urgent requests will be replied to in the New Year even if they have "[URGENT]" in the subject line.

The web store will of course remain open, and we will answer all non-urgent emails sent to us over the Christmas period as soon as we possibly can in the New Year (which may take a few days if there is a backlog).

I know a fortnight is a long time, but hey, it's Christmas and we were open for the American Thanksgiving holidays and usually answer emails at weekends all year round.

]]>2015-11-24T20:46:552015-11-24T20:46:55http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33099&p=207449#p207449You may have noticed that it’s been getting a bit busier on the forums lately. For that reason, and because we hope that L&L will continue to grow, we’re now in a position to take on another person - or possibly a couple of people, depending on the time you can commit. You’ll be joining team L&L’s help and support staff, answering customer questions via our Tenderapp.com system and on the forums. All support is done online, so you won’t be expected to take phone calls, and to begin with you’ll mostly be dealing with fairly basic queries - re-sending people their serial numbers and such, to help free up our more experienced staff for the more difficult questions.

Sound interesting? Read on…

First, we’re looking for people who are able to work on a freelance basis, invoicing us for their services each month. This means you can be flexible about how many hours you take on (and also when you take them). Ideally, though, we're looking for someone who can commit at least 20 hours of their time each week to helping us. As the position is for basic support, we’ll be looking to pay a rate of $15 an hour, though if you’re good we’ll do what we can to keep you! If you’re in the UK and are interested in more regular hours rather than freelancing, there is the possibility of it turning into regular employment if you prefer. (Unfortunately we are not able to employ anyone outside of the UK at this time, however, and can only hire freelancers from other countries.)

Second, it’s crucial to have a decent working knowledge of Scrivener - if you spend a lot of time on the forums answering random questions and sharing your knowledge for free, then this could be ideal for you! We don’t expect you to be an expert with detailed knowledge of every feature, but you will need to be able to answer basic questions about how to get around in and use Scrivener, and you’ll need to be good at looking up and finding out things as you need them. We’ll send you three sample support questions to respond to, in order to help us decide who to hire.

Third, it’s important that you have a high standard of written English. As a company that produces writing software, it’s important to us that all our communications with our customers are written in a professional manner.

Fourth, we're definitely looking for someone we get on with - someone with a sense of humour and who doesn’t mind a bit of quirkiness from time to time. The ability to tolerate British spelling is a bonus.

One final point - when you get in touch with us, we’d like you to specify whether you are comfortable on the Mac or Windows platform (or both), and which you have access to.

So, if you’ve got this far and haven’t been put off then that’s great. If you’re interested, we’d be grateful if you could get in touch with us before December 4th, including your CV and a couple of paragraphs telling us a little about yourself and why you’d like to work for L&L. Please write to: contact@literatureandlatte.com and be sure to use the subject “Support Staff Help”.

]]>2015-10-07T07:27:222015-10-07T07:27:22http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32536&p=204607#p204607Scrivener 1.9 for Windows is now available. 1.9 updates Scrivener to a new file format, compatible with Scrivener 2.7 for Mac. It is a free update for all registered users of Scrivener for Windows, and we recommend that you update from whatever version of Scrivener you are using. Updates and fixes include:

Minor updates to the UI, including moving the inspector buttons to the top of the inspector.

File format updated for compatibility with future mobile versions. (Please note that you will not be able to open 1.9 projects in earlier versions of Scrivener. Scrivener 1.9 for Windows is compatible with Scrivener 2.7 for Mac.)

Scrivener's "project.scrivx" file now uses the project folder name rather than the generic "project".

Tabs and carriage returns can be used in compile replacements.

Refinements to inspector comments and footnotes, including the ability to expand and collapse multiple notes.

Fixed a bug causing the document templates folder assignment to switch to other items in the binder.

]]>2015-09-24T20:26:532015-09-24T20:26:53http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32383&p=203921#p203921Scrivener 2.7 is now available to users who bought from us direct (or from one of our resellers such as Amazon.com). It was also submitted to the Mac App Store on Monday, but at this time is still waiting to go into review. We hope it will be available there in the next week or so. Scrivener 2.7 is a free update for all registered users of Scrivener 2, and we recommend that you update from whatever version of Scrivener you are using. Updates and fixes include:

El Capitan-ready: minor updates and fixes for 10.11 compatibility.

Icons and UI updated for a more modern look consistent with El Capitan and Yosemite.

File format updated for compatibility with future mobile versions. (Please note that you will not be able to open 2.7 projects in earlier versions of Scrivener.)

The tutorial project has been updated, and now includes a new "Quick Start" collection.

Scrivener now uses Courier Prime as its default screenplay font. For existing screenplay projects, you can change back to your old font via the Script Settings panel (in the Format > Scriptwriting menu).

Updated the built-in MultiMarkdown components to version 4.

Epub files now have the "of:file-as" and "opf:event" attributes added to the creator and date elements, so that they will pass Lulu B&N validation.

You can now insert .svg images files into MultiMarkdown by internally linking to an .svg image document.

To download Scrivener 2.7, follow the instructions below - please note that the instructions differ depending on whether you bought Scrivener directly from us or from the Mac App Store. If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to e-mail us at mac.support@literatureandlatte.com for further assistance.

#### 1. UPDATING TO 2.7 FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT DIRECTLY FROM US ####

To download Scrivener 2.7, either:

• Select "Check for Updates" from the "Scrivener" menu within Scrivener itself and follow the on-screen instructions;

If you have already seen the update notification and followed the on-screen instructions to update, you don't need to do anything else.

#### 2. UPDATING TO 2.7 FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT FROM THE MAC APP STORE ####

Scrivener 2.7 has been submitted to the Mac App Store for review, so should appear on the Mac App Store within the next week or two, depending on the current review waiting times (which vary). So, please keep an eye out for the update in the "Updates" pane of the Mac App Store.

App Store users who do not wish to wait can just download and run Scrivener 2.7 from our site for the time being. As long as you have run Scrivener from the Mac App Store at least once, the version on our site should recognise you as a registered user. (You will need to remove Scrivener from your Applications directory before you can do this, and you may be prompted to enter your admin password to do so.) When the update becomes available on the Mac App Store, you can then just delete our regular version and re-download from the Mac App Store (or you can continue using our regular version, of course).

]]>2015-08-14T01:51:072015-08-14T01:51:07http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32039&p=201733#p201733Saturday, October 17th of 2015, misery and glory await the brave.

That’s right, it is time for Novel in a Day, where a handful of enthusiastic writers spend a mind-rending twenty-four hours collectively writing a new novel from scratch, each writer oblivious to the overall story unfolding around their assigned chapter. We are delighted to once again help out in hosting this unique one-day event!

Interested in becoming a part of history in the making? Get the scoop on how to sign up, here: Novel-in-a-Day 5: Go Set A NiaD. Be sure to stake out your spot sooner than later—the list fills up quickly!

Curious about how all of this tends to work out? Peruse conquests of prior years in The Library, or just browse the shiny NiaD sub-forum and meet the folks that will be building a story with you on the 17th.

If you've got the right sort of experience and skills, and are interested in working with us, please drop us a line.

(A note to our users who have been waiting on this for far too long now: the iOS version has been feature-complete for a month or two but we are incredibly disappointed to say that it is still not ready for public beta testing - as we had hoped it would be by now - because of a number of outstanding issues. We are thus looking for a talented developer to help us get it ship-shape. We're sincerely sorry for the geological time scales this is taking; no one wants it out and in use more than us.)

]]>2015-02-10T07:06:382015-02-10T07:06:38http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30389&p=192898#p192898Whilst we try to ensure that the interactive tutorial and user manual cover everything that users need to know about Scrivener, and to ensure that Scrivener can be picked up quickly and used progressively, Scrivener’s deep feature-set means that it can be used in many different ways. Third-party courses and books have been springing up to give pointers to users looking for a more personal guide (something we can’t provide at the price we charge for the software), and we are sometimes asked to recommend training courses to customers. In the longer term, we hope to look into the possibility of producing more training materials ourselves, and perhaps working with or endorsing some of the independent trainers and providing them with supplementary materials.

In the meantime, we thought that it might be helpful to add a page to our website, listing external courses (both local and online) which we believe may be of interest to users seeking a different learning approach to supplement the materials that we offer as part of Scrivener and through our various support mechanisms. We’re not sure at this stage how many independent trainers exist, so it may turn out that such a web page is neither necessary nor appropriate, and we can’t make any promises. Inclusion in the list will be entirely at our discretion, and it won’t imply any sort of endorsement by Literature and Latte — it will be intended just as a point of reference for our users.

If you offer training in how to use Scrivener, and if you would like to be added to this potential list on our website, please contact Siren by PM (this is Astrid, in real life), and we can discuss your possible inclusion. We will not be vetting either the course itself or your delivery of it, but we will want to see your course’s content list so that we can understand what areas you cover, and we will review your website and social media to make sure that your portrayal of Scrivener is consistent with ours. We’d want to see how you advertise your training, and to see evidence that you have a body of satisfied users who are prepared to endorse your training course. We would also look at your pricing details, because we try to make Scrivener affordable and want our customers to receive good value for their money. Beyond that, we haven’t decided on the details yet.

]]>2015-01-20T10:29:062015-01-20T10:29:06http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30160&p=191694#p191694We're running a quick survey to see how our customers use Scrivener. There's only one question, involving nothing more than ticking a box or two (unless you want to add more information), so it should only take a few seconds to complete. This information will help us plan new features, prioritise features we already have planned, and it will also help us with working out how to get the word out about Scrivener a bit better, to those who are most likely to be interested.

]]>2014-12-17T17:44:502014-12-17T17:44:50http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29882&p=190272#p190272Just to let you know that, as usual, Literature & Latte will be closing over the Christmas holidays. We're a relatively small team and many of us will be away visiting family, and I'm not Scrooge enough to force anyone to work the Christmas break. It's been another busy year, and I hope our customers will not begrudge us a little time off in preparation for what should be a big 2015 for us. Besides, technical support is a little tricky when you're balancing a Cockburn's port and mince pie in one hand while trying to hide the remote control with the other so that the kids can't turn over to the Disney channel before you get to see Arnold Schwarzenegger beat Sinbad to getting the last Turbo Man in New York.

Thus, Literature & Latte's customer support will be closed from Saturday, 20th December through to Sunday, 4th January.

We will be re-opening our virtual doors on Monday, 5th January.

This means that if you send us emails during this period, you will most likely receive an auto-reply telling you that we are on holiday and will reply as soon as we get chance in the New Year. Likewise, we won't be around on the forums as much as usual and so some questions may go unanswered until January.

If you have any issues that are genuinely urgent or time-critical over the Christmas holidays, here's what to do:

If you are still stuck, email us and place "[URGENT]" in the subject of your email.

Emails with "[URGENT]" in the subject line will be prioritised and we will do our best to reply to them before the New Year. However, we can only reply to genuinely urgent support requests (such as data loss, an inability to open the program and suchlike) - non-urgent requests will be replied to in the New Year even if they have "[URGENT]" in the subject line.

The web store will of course remain open, and we will answer all non-urgent emails sent to us over the Christmas period as soon as we possibly can in the New Year (which may take a few days if there is a backlog).

I know a fortnight is a long time, but hey, it's Christmas and we were open for the American Thanksgiving holidays and usually answer emails at weekends all year round.

As for 2015, I'll just quote what I said at the end of 2013:

2014 is going to be a big year. I know I said this about 2013, but 2014 really *is* going to be the year of the iOS version of Scrivener (although it won't be particularly early in the year - sorry!). We also have some cool things planned for the Mac and Windows versions of Scrivener, and updates on the horizon for Scapple.

Just substitute "2015" for "2014" and add, "honest, I mean it this time!"... In all seriousness, after many unexpected delays, we are now in the final stages of iOS development before starting internal beta-testing (I hope... don't quote me on that... and other caveats). So you won't hear anything about it for a little while - until we are really happy with the beta-testing - but it is slowly making its way out to the world. And we really *do* have some exciting things planned for the Mac and Windows versions, too.

]]>2014-12-02T23:55:592014-12-02T23:55:59http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29718&p=189354#p189354We are pleased to announce the released of Scrivener for Windows 1.8.6.0 today. Here are the highlights:

Refinements and Changes

* Synopsis images are now cached as 640x480 px thumbnails to reduce memory usage, addressing an issue whereby Scrivener would stop displaying imported images and image synopses in projects with numerous large image files.* Scrivener's project window now shows the project name first in the title bar, making it easier to identify projects in the Windows taskbar.* Project and document references and all project notes are now included when importing a Scrivener project. Scrivener links within the imported project now remain functional, pointing to the imported copy of the original item.* The "Exclude from Automatic Backups" setting is now preserved when moving between Mac and Windows.

Bugs Fixed

* Fixed a crash that could occur when pasting web content if Scrivener could not download the selected images.* Fixed a bug causing Scrivener to set all items to use the freeform corkboard when opened in the Mac version of Scrivener. The fix will prevent this happening for new documents but will not affect existing documents, which can be toggled back to the regular corkboard view in the Mac version.* Fixed a bug whereby JPG files dragged from the binder to the editor were converted to PNG files within the text.* Fixed a bug whereby the project search criteria preview did not update until after running the search.* Fixed a bug causing the project search criteria to reset each time the project closed.* Fixed a bug that exported document notes in place of meta-data and vice versa when using File > Export > Files....* Fixed a bug in File > Export that created a 0KB file for containers with no text.* Fixed a bug whereby exporting document notes created an empty notes file for items that did not have document notes.* Fixed a bug causing referenced PDF files not to load correctly in the editor when the file extension was uppercase.* Fixed a bug whereby document notes always exported as RTF files regardless of the export settings.* Fixed a bug that could cause script elements with custom settings to be misidentified as "General Text" after closing and reopening the project. (This will only affect new text; elements that have previously been switched to "General Text" will need to be manually restored to the proper element.)* Fixed a bug causing Scrivener links within the project notes window to always open in the second editor, regardless of the navigation settings.* Fixed a bug whereby inspector comments and footnotes deleted en masse were restored one by one via Undo. The notes are now all restored together.* Fixed a bug that caused the resize rectangle around an image to appear in the wrong location when clicking into the empty space above an inserted image.* Fixed a bug whereby the Spelling command was disabled when accessed via the Alt accelerator keys.* Fixed a bug whereby hyperlinks attached to inserted images were lost on project close. The image links now persist and can be compiled to RTF, DOC, HTML/XHTML, and ebook formats, and to DOCX and PDF when using the Microsoft Office converters.* Fixed a bug whereby the Tab key did not move focus from the editor header to the editor when in Scrivenings mode.* Fixed a bug that could cause text formatted with an unavailable font (such as text in a Mac project opened on Windows) to default to MS Shell Dlg 2 when pasted in Scrivener's editor despite initially appearing in the editor as a different fallback font.* Tweaked saving and reading the templateinfo.xml file (used to auto-populate the fields in the Save As Template dialog), which should reduce cases of the file causing an innocuous error message when loading the project.* Fixed several typos and translations.* Adjusted accelerator keys in the Format menu to ensure Font, Formatting, and Footnote have unique keys. Also changed the Scratch Pad to use the 'p' accelerator key to avoid duplicate keys in the Tools menu.

]]>2014-10-15T20:02:412014-10-15T20:02:41http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29209&p=186409#p186409Scapple 1.2 is now available to users who bought from us direct (or from one of our resellers). It has also been submitted to the Mac App Store for review, but at this time is still waiting to go into review. We hope it will be available there very soon. Scapple 1.2 is a free update for all registered users of Scapple for Mac, and we recommend that you update from whatever version of Scapple you are using.

Changes:

Yosemite-ready: various UI tweaks and fixes for Yosemite compatibility.

To download Scapple 1.2, follow the instructions below - please note that the instructions differ depending on whether you bought Scapple directly from us or from the Mac App Store. If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to e-mail us at mac.support@literatureandlatte.com for further assistance.

#### 1. UPDATING TO 1.2 FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT DIRECTLY FROM US ####

To download Scapple 1.2, either:

• Select "Check for Updates" from the “Scapple” menu within Scapple itself and follow the on-screen instructions;

If you have already seen the update notification and followed the on-screen instructions to update, you don't need to do anything else.

#### 2. UPDATING TO 1.2 FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT FROM THE MAC APP STORE ####

Scapple 1.2 has been submitted to the Mac App Store for review, so should appear on the Mac App Store within the next week or two, depending on the current review waiting times (which vary). So, please keep an eye out for the update in the "Updates" pane of the Mac App Store.

App Store users who do not wish to wait can just download and run Scapple 1.2 from our site for the time being. As long as you have run Scapple from the Mac App Store at least once, the version on our site should recognise you as a registered user. (You will need to remove Scapple from your Applications directory before you can do this, and you may be prompted to enter your admin password to do so.) When the update becomes available on the Mac App Store, you can then just delete our regular version and re-download from the Mac App Store (or you can continue using our regular version, of course).

]]>2014-10-15T19:54:232014-10-15T19:54:23http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29208&p=186408#p186408Scrivener 2.6 is now available to users who bought from us direct (or from one of our resellers such as Amazon.com). It was also submitted to the Mac App Store for review last week, but at this time is still waiting to go into review. We hope it will be available there very soon. Scrivener 2.6 is a free update for all registered users of Scrivener 2, and we recommend that you update from whatever version of Scrivener you are using. Updates and fixes include:

Yosemite-ready: various UI tweaks and fixes for Yosemite compatibility.

Added option to Import/Export Preferences to determine whether Scrivener should use the bundled version of Java or the one installed on the system for converting Word and OpenOffice documents (to work around rare Java-based issues).

Root folders (Draft, Research and Trash) are no longer ever returned in search results (which could result in odd behaviour).

URLs dragged and dropped into the binder now use the file name for the linked text rather than the file URL.

To download Scrivener 2.6, follow the instructions below - please note that the instructions differ depending on whether you bought Scrivener directly from us or from the Mac App Store. If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to e-mail us at mac.support@literatureandlatte.com for further assistance.

#### 1. UPDATING TO 2.6 FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT DIRECTLY FROM US ####

To download Scrivener 2.6, either:

• Select "Check for Updates" from the "Scrivener" menu within Scrivener itself and follow the on-screen instructions;

If you have already seen the update notification and followed the on-screen instructions to update, you don't need to do anything else.

#### 2. UPDATING TO 2.6 FOR THOSE WHO BOUGHT FROM THE MAC APP STORE ####

Scrivener 2.6 has been submitted to the Mac App Store for review, so should appear on the Mac App Store within the next week or two, depending on the current review waiting times (which vary). So, please keep an eye out for the update in the "Updates" pane of the Mac App Store.

App Store users who do not wish to wait can just download and run Scrivener 2.6 from our site for the time being. As long as you have run Scrivener from the Mac App Store at least once, the version on our site should recognise you as a registered user. (You will need to remove Scrivener from your Applications directory before you can do this, and you may be prompted to enter your admin password to do so.) When the update becomes available on the Mac App Store, you can then just delete our regular version and re-download from the Mac App Store (or you can continue using our regular version, of course).